In Europe, Meloni lacks the momentum to make Italy go fast

The premier goes straight along the path marked out by Draghi on 70 percent of the issues, then there are the detours on immigration, the pandemic and the mania for pointing ideological flags that waste time and resources

The point is all here: seventy percent continuity, thirty percent identity. The topics addressed yesterday by Giorgia Meloni during his first press conference at the end of the year as Prime Minister, they confirmed that the dangerous bet made a few weeks ago by Carlo Calenda, leader of the Third Pole, is increasingly likely not to come true. Calenda, you will recall, at the beginning of the Melonian season came to say that the center-right government would have a very complicated, practically impossible life, and in a series of peremptory interviews, at the end of October, he made three predictions. The first: the Meloni government will last six months. The second: the Meloni government will terrorize the markets. The third: the Meloni government will be torn apart by its internal divisions. At the time there were good reasons to think that the Meloni government would have encountered various obstacles on its way, perhaps not so many as to justify a prediction of a few weeks of life, but two months later, on balance, in the light of how the government has moved so far, and also in the light of a series of issues that emerged yesterday in the dialogue with journalists, we feel ready for an equally reckless forecast.